So It Goes
Phrase · Slang & Abbreviations
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A dry expression of acceptance when something frustrating but unsurprising happens. In engineering slang, it often marks the moment a team stops dramatizing a known class of failure and deals with it practically.
In plain English: A dry way of saying this frustrating thing happened and now we deal with it.
Example: "Another deploy broke the one undocumented cron dependency, so it goes, and back to writing the missing runbook they went."